Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS Approach

ISBN 10: 0521621763 / ISBN 13: 9780521621762

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Synopsis:

Human activity is undeniably affecting the rates of change in many parts of the global system. How this global change develops into the future is vitally important, but modeling these changes requires a complex, integrated assessment of a wide range of disciplines in science and social science. This book describes the structure, assumptions, philosophy and results of an advanced global integrated assessment model: TARGETS. For a number of future directions selected on the basis of divergent cultural perspectives, the model charts global implications in terms of population and health, energy, land- and water-use and biogeochemical cycles. This integrated assessment approach has led to innovative fresh insights into global change. The book will help policymakers formulate the strategies required for a sustainable global future.

Book Description: Human activity is undeniably affecting the rates of change of many parts of the global system. This book describes the structure, assumptions, philosophy and innovative results of an advanced global integrated assessment model, TARGETS, which brings together a wide range of disciplines in science and social science. The book will help policymakers formulate the strategies required for a sustainable global future. It will be of interest to a broad audience, from researchers and modellers of global change, to policy analysts, decision makers and economists, and students of all aspects of global change.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Like New
Book Type: book